Brian Jannsen replied: Thanks Andrea - much appreciated
We did a study here in 2014 after we had about two-and-a-half months of smoke off and on, because were in the subarctic so were warming at triple the global rate, so in a way were kind of canaries in the coal mine of the health impacts of climate change, Howard said on a clear day from Yellowknife, Canada
Heres a little run-down on whats been going on with this issue lately : "Last year, Maines Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Libby Mitchell, proposed a renegotiation of the states liquor sales contract to raise money for higher education." "In 2007, the American Academy of Family Physicians urged Congress to raise the federal tobacco tax to fund expansion of SCHIP, so called Medicaid for children." "In Maine, a Democratic state legislator, Diane Russell, has even suggested that marijuana should be legalized and taxed, expressly to generate $8.5 million per year in sales tax revenues." All these examples have been listed as a means to portray what the editor of the Pelican Post states so succinctly in their most recent article pertaining to this issue: "These examples have one common denominator: government makes one group of citizens dependent on the addiction-driven behavior of another group of citizens." I wish that it could be just tobacco that was facing such extensive tax increases, but given the current climate I fear that it will be all substances that will be used in some way or another to fund these health programs before too long, with tobacco and alcohol leading the charge, of course
To add to that luck, the same two employees that used to run the tinning machine still work at the Lane factory
